Description: Globalizing the Sacred : Religion Across the Americas, Paperback by Vasquez, Manuel A.; Marquardt, Marie F., ISBN 081353285X, ISBN-13 9780813532851, Brand New, Free shipping in the US French and German tourists join Mexican migrant workers to venerate the image of the Virgin Mary at a strip mall in Florida; Latino gang members, deported from the United States to home countries they barely know, find Jesus in transnational churches; . evangelicals use electronic media to preach a &;neo liberal&; gospel of wealth and health to landless peasants in remote indigenous villages in Guatemala. These are just some examples of how religion in the Americas today intersects in complex ways with the economic, political, and cultural dimensions of globalization. Drawing on case studies in the United States and Latin America, Manuel A. Vásquez and Marie Friedmann Marquardt explore the evolving roles of religion in the Americas in the face of globalization, transnational migration, the rapid growth of culture industries, the rise of computer mediated technologies, and the crisis of modernity. Combining ethnographic research in local congregations, studies of material culture and sacred space, textual analyses, and approaches to mass and electronic media, the authors challenge dominant paradigms in sociology of religion, such as the secularization and rational choice models. Further, th offers alternative theoretical and methodological tools to understand the increasing complexity of religious life in the Americas. By illustratingthe challenges that scholars and students must confront in order to understand the complexity of today&;s religious landscape, Globalizing the Sacred makes both important theoretical and methodological contributions to the study of religion&;s role in social change.
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Book Title: Globalizing the Sacred : Religion Across the Americas
Number of Pages: 272 Pages
Publication Name: Globalizing the Sacred : Religion Across the Americas
Language: English
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Item Height: 0.7 in
Publication Year: 2003
Subject: Ethnic Studies / Hispanic American Studies, Globalization, Sociology of Religion
Item Weight: 15 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Political Science, Social Science
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Manuel A. Vásquez, Marie F. Marquardt
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
